Literature is news that stays news.
~By Ezra Pound ~
The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by exposure.
~By I. F. Stone ~
I was totally absorbed in the real world, the politics, the history, the news, and I just couldn't find my way into the fictional world... When I finally could return to writing the novel, it was in fits and starts.
~By David Guterson ~
I couldn't open up a magazine, you couldn't read a newspaper, you couldn't turn on the TV without hearing about the obesity epidemic in America.
~By Morgan Spurlock ~
When we saw our plane on TV as breaking news, it was the most surreal experience. A lot of the women were crying. There was a gentleman who was writing in his journal and crying. Seeing that isn't easy.
~By Taryn Manning ~
One of the first rules of playing the power game is that all bad news must be accepted calmly, as if one already knew and didn't care.
~By Michael Korda ~
The law reports in newspapers contain perhaps the only real history of England that has any relation to truth.
~By Robert Baldwin Ross ~
I thought I might say something to newsmen that could be turned into a scandal.
~By George Stevens ~
Before she married my father, my mother was a film reviewer for The Akron Beacon Journal - a small newspaper.
~By Jim Jarmusch ~
MSNBC got some very good people. They've got a good-looking set. All They're first-class. Somewhere along the way, they kind of lost their identity as a news channel, and they started doing a lot of other sort of magazine-type programming.
~By Brit Hume ~
Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen.
~By Norman Mailer ~
Great were the lamentation and the cry when the news of this mischance was noised about the city. Such a tumult of mourning was never before heard, for the whole city was moved.
~By Marie de France ~
My name was on the list very early after these announcements were made through the newspapers in Europe.
~By Claude Nicollier ~
I was on the Oprah Winfrey Show once. It was a really slow news day for Oprah, and there were several of us on 'cause none of us was sufficiently interesting by his or herself.
~By Robert B. Parker ~
This consists of a series of meetings that may last several days through which information is provided that may include reviewing documentaries, news programs, court records and certain reports about the group in question.
~By Rick Ross ~
If they asked me, I did two shifts. I did sports, I did news, because I loved it.
~By Larry King ~
Practically every day, there is a story in the newspapers about a new breakthrough drug on Parkinson's.
~By Mort Kondracke ~
It was 1966 by the time I started taking pictures seriously and books, newspapers and magazines of the time were full of great pictures that helped to inspire me.
~By Fay Godwin ~
Don't count out other amazing programming like Frontline. You will still find more hours of in-depth news programming, investigative journalism and analysis on PBS than on any other outlet.
~By Gwen Ifill ~
If the news isn't there, don't create it. If I look at local news, I don't know what's real.
~By Willie Herenton ~
Newspapers that are truly independent, like The Washington Post, can still aggressively investigate anyone or anything with no holds barred.
~By Bob Woodward ~
We report the news. Fox talks about the news.
~By Jonathan Klein ~
We hear foreign accents on CNN. It's crazy, it's wild, who knows, maybe they'll take you because you certainly don't fit in, in the American spectrum of news.
~By Christiane Amanpour ~
The standards are being lowered, not just on the Internet, but in all of news and media.
~By Vince McMahon ~
I don't think the news department will have to lie down and play dead like it has in the past. By and large the network has been understanding, but then so have I.
~By Roone Arledge ~
A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day.
~By Jim Bishop ~
Europe has a press that stresses opinions; America a press, radio, and television that emphasize news.
~By James Reston ~
I had a financial page to write in the Mail on Sunday where I'd give tips on shares. I worked there for two and a half years. Nothing compares to the burst of energy felt on a newsroom floor when a big story breaks.
~By Adam Faith ~
It is the advertiser who provides the paper for the subscriber. It is not to be disputed, that the publisher of a newspaper in this country, without a very exhaustive advertising support, would receive less reward for his labor than the humblest mechanic.
~By Alexander Hamilton ~
Ah, the pleasure, the joy - a big news story that runs and runs, that is played down by some of our journalistic colleagues, saying 'it'll never happen', only to be confirmed by the Home Secretary.
~By Kamal Ahmed ~
The confusing thing, I thought, was that most of America already knew that we were overly reliant on oil, especially on foreign oil. But it was news that this administration had begun to at least acknowledge that problem.
~By Chris Van Hollen ~
Information on the Internet must be as free as in the newspapers.
~By Omar Bongo ~
Their coverage on the Fox News Channel has been atrocious. The stuff that comes out of Sean Hannity's mouth has been infuriating. The stuff that Bill O'Reilly says has been illogical. You go up and down the schedule and it's insanity over there. The number of lies, perpetuated, promoted by Fox News is just shameful and it hurts everybody.
~By David Shuster ~
The pressure to be timely with news has increased every year.
~By Mary Hart ~
Newspaper men, perhaps more than any other class, are rated by ability.
~By Franklin Knight Lane ~
People realized that they could come on Fox News Sunday, and they would be well and fairly treated.
~By Brit Hume ~
There is no better news, than the fact that Jesus can actually turn a life upside down and save it.
~By Cliff Richard ~
The anger of lovers renews their love.
~By Terence ~
When news of the crash came, probably a lot of people in small towns and farms across America felt a sense of grim satisfaction that the sinners had finally been punished for their wicked ways.
~By Ron Chernow ~
News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news.
~By Friedrich Durrenmatt ~
In the past ABC has made half-hearted efforts or, worse, cosmetic efforts, to do something about news and I wasn't certain about what their real aim was - nor am I now.
~By Roone Arledge ~
Washington newspaper men know everything.
~By Buffalo Bill ~
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
~By Izaak Walton ~
The perception is that more important people watch news in the evenings than in the mornings.
~By Reese Schonfeld ~
We've had a series of major news stories that have brought in viewers who either were sampling to see what else was available or were normal news watchers. The Florida recount and the end of the election was a huge development. And then 9/11 came along.
~By Brit Hume ~
Honestly, I'm more into the computer, the Internet, and checking out scores or the news.
~By Martina Hingis ~
News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising.
~By Lord Northcliffe ~
When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Museum Reading Room catalogue for a space at the head of a long list of books for which no one will ever ask.
~By C. S. Forester ~
The big news already broke. The file-sharing and all that stuff, it's a done deal. And I think figuring out how to make that a fair exchange for the people that make music is still an issue.
~By Liz Phair ~
With the recent news that the State of Florida has agreed to purchase 181,000 acres of U.S. Sugar land, we have an historic opportunity for our larger restoration efforts and for the people of Florida. This too will not come without difficult challenges, but it reminds us that anything is possible.
~By Debbie Wasserman Schultz ~
The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
Most people don't have the money to spend on advertising to create awareness among readers, nor do they have the contacts at newspapers or magazines to get their books reviewed.
~By Sara Paretsky ~
This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, 'gun control' legislation. Good news - if you're a crook.
~By Larry Elder ~
I have had only two men in four years while he appears every week on the newspapers with another woman.
~By Michelle Hunziker ~
The news media are, for the most part, the bringers of bad news... and it's not entirely the media's fault, bad news gets higher ratings and sells more papers than good news.
~By Peter McWilliams ~
The Fox News cable channel is doing very well because there is a market for what Fox News has to offer.
~By Paul Weyrich ~
There is so much media now with the Internet and people, and so easy and so cheap to start a newspaper or start a magazine, there's just millions of voices and people want to be heard.
~By Rupert Murdoch ~
The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism.
~By Henry A. Wallace ~
People essentially like local news better than network news.
~By Roone Arledge ~
The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere.
~By Michel De Certeau ~
In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress.
~By Heinrich Heine ~
Collectively, we must do more than simply watch, with resignation and a feeling of powerlessness, reports on the evening news about the latest terrorist atrocity.
~By Michael Jeffery ~
In a lot of cases, as in Tom and Nicole's case, the tabloids were about to break the story, so they said just let the news out. And they called organizations such as ours.
~By Mary Hart ~
But in my own particular case, there was something that happened when I became a mother. Whenever in the news I saw an example of a child being abused or mistreated, my response went from being appalled to being physically revolted.
~By Mercedes Ruehl ~
Be able to notice all the confusion between fact and opinion that appears in the news.
~By Marilyn vos Savant ~
Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
~By Elbert Hubbard ~
Well, the biggest Norwegian newspaper regarded this as an arrest, since they hadn't told us that they were coming and they brought me in. So the biggest Norwegian newspaper looked upon that as an arrest.
~By Jon Johansen ~
Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.
~By Ralph W. Sockman ~
What NPR did, I'm very proud of, and what NPR stood for is non-racist, non-bigoted, straightforward telling of the news.
~By Ron Schiller ~
Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age.
~By Colin Powell ~
I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web.
~By Alan Dean Foster ~
Local television and local TV news isn't telling the voters about local candidates.
~By Reed Hundt ~
Of course, today at the Karolinska Institute, I am working with some top experts - even some Nobel prize winners. They have the latest news and I have the technique.
~By Lennart Nilsson ~
I don't know of anybody's political bias at CBS News. We try very hard to get any opinion that we have out of our stories, and most of our stories are balanced.
~By Lesley Stahl ~
It's like tabloid news programs that talk about how horrible something is, while at the same time they're glorifying it as their top story.
~By Daisy Berkowitz ~
Not every programme dealing with issues of global significance has to be fronted by last week's winner of Have I Got News For You-but I suppose you might be wrong.
~By Jonathan Dimbleby ~
Democrats were simply hoping to win some political points by getting their outlandish rhetoric published in the newspapers and heard on the talk shows.
~By John Doolittle ~
The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast pieces and the like that they thought were bad or harmful or even against the government and try to block them.
~By Floyd Abrams ~
The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context.
~By Carl Bernstein ~
When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story.
~By Aaron McGruder ~
Since I arrived at CNN, it has grown into one of the largest and most trusted news organizations in the world.
~By Jim Walton ~
If it's far away, it's news, but if it's close at home, it's sociology.
~By James Reston ~
Spreading the news is your duty as a Christian, and there are many ways to do this.
~By Nicholas Sparks ~
I have before me a newspaper slip on which a writer expresses the opinion that no one should be allowed to possess more than one million dollars' worth of property.
~By William Graham Sumner ~
I couldn't have attended half the parties that I was supposed to have been to according to the newspapers. It bothers me.
~By Calvin Klein ~
I need to keep my story count high. I'm trying to get as many stories in my hour as is humanly possible. We're telling more stories in our hour than any national newscast has in the history of this business, I think.
~By Shepard Smith ~
I want to be an advocate for the people who don't have time to read the newspaper... or the money to make a political contribution.
~By Richard J. Codey ~
It's not the first time that I speak with American journalists. I've had meetings with many different newspapers and stations, and I've ha - never had a problem with meeting with American journalists.
~By Hassan Nasrallah ~
I'd like to get back into journalism. I'm hoping someone will offer me a job as a commentator or one of those political analysts that you see on the news shows all the time.
~By Jeff Gannon ~
What they did was to make a pilot and it may well go to series at the next festival but I don't have any news on that. It's already been on Paramount actually, but as it's on Paramount it'll probably be on several more times... hopefully.
~By Jo Brand ~
Ladies and gentlemen, I wish I had better news for you but we are facing a storm that most of us have feared. This is a threat that we've never faced before.
~By Ray Nagin ~
Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.
~By Albert Schweitzer ~
I realized that I had traveled to Havana during what now seems like the childhood of the Cuban Revolution, if you think that Fidel has now been in power for 44 extremely long years. I started looking at the revolution as history, and not as part of the daily news.
~By Alma Guillermoprieto ~
One thing that stands out throughout the entire year was that in South Dakota we are much more united than we are divided. Now the divided part creates news, but the united part is what moves us forward.
~By Mike Rounds ~
Well, if you don't want your relatives and friends to die, help me spread the news. Let people know about immortality device. That way, your loved ones won't die.
~By Alex Chiu ~
When I worked in Los Angeles covering hard news, very often when something important would happen I'd be off in the woods covering something unimportant, which was more interesting to me.
~By Charles Kuralt ~
To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail.
~By T. E. Lawrence ~
But by showing us live coverage of every bad thing happening everywhere in the world, cable news makes life seem like it's just an endless string of disasters - when, for most people in most places today, life is fairly good.
~By Gregg Easterbrook ~
If you value a man's regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper - and despise it.
~By Andre Maurois ~
Our first record, 'Huey Lewis And The News', was seen by no one - it sold 25 copies.
~By Huey Lewis ~
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